A couple of stalwarts on the Boston Globe’s copy desk are retiring. The following is an email to the staff from Mary Creane, the Globe’s senior assistant managing editor for production. The last line is key: “We will be filling both jobs.” What follows is the text of her email, which someone forwarded to me a little while ago.
Hi All
Bob Scherer-Hoock has decided to hang up his pica pole, proportion wheel, and non-repro blue pen (look them up).
Bob has been a rock on every iteration of the copy desk for many years. He helped with the implementation of four (maybe five) content management systems and still finds ways to make Methode do things that baffle many of us.
If he has touched a story, it has come out better. If he has laid out a page, it is uncluttered and clean.
We will miss his skills, but also his dry and penetrating wit and his compassion.
Bob’s last shift with us is July 8.
ALSO
John Harrington is leaving us as well. John has been a stalwart on the desk with a speciality in Business and Boston.
He knows where everything is in Boston and can tell you where to eat and what to get when you get there.
Stories edited by John are more clear and have fewer extraneous words than when he started.
We will miss his broad knowledge of the city and its history as well as his humor and haikus.
John’s last shift with us is July 15.
We will find a way to say goodbye properly, in the meantime, ask Bob all your Methode questions now and get John to give you a dining recommendation….
We will be filling both jobs.